2023-05-19 07:20:37
Sevilla showed this Thursday that they have a special idyll with the Europa League. José Luis Mendilibar’s team will be in the final in Budapest after a heart-stopping match against Juventus in which the people from Seville were behind on the scoreboard but in which they brought out their DNA as a champion team. The goals from Suso in the final stretch and from Lamela in extra time extend a dream that will have its next stop on May 31 against Mourinho’s Roma. Make way, the king of the Europa League is coming.
“We are going to burn Pizjuán,” said Ivan Rakitic, and that is what the two teams found when they jumped onto the pitch, a real hell. And it is that the Sevillian fiefdom was dyed red, put on a party worthy of the prelude to the final and generated the atmosphere so that the duel was a trap. It was what was expected and Mendilibar did his part by repeating the eleven that drew in Turin, with Fernando and Rakitic as anchors, with three sparkly midfielders such as Óliver Torres, Ocampos and Bryan Gil and with En-Nesyri to score the goals.
Sevilla
Bond; Navas (Papu Gómez, min. 106), Gudelj, Badé, Acuña; Fernando, Rakitic, Óliver (Suso, min. 62 / Rekik, min. 117), Ocampos (Lamela, min. 71), Bryan Gil (Montiel, min. 100) and En-Nesyri.
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Juventus
Szczesny; Danilo, Bremer, Gatti; Cuadrado (Min., min. 106), Locatelli (Miretti, min. 87), Fagioli (Paredes, min. 41), Rabiot, Iling Junior (Kostic, min. 87); Di María (Chiesa, min. 63)y Kean (Vlahovic, min. 63).
Goals:
0-1, min. 65. Vlahovic. 1-1, min. 72. Suso. 2-1, min. 95. Lamella.Referee:
Danny Mackelie. He admonished Kean, Danilo, Suso, Paredes and Montiel, and sent off Acuña,Incidences:
Match played at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in front of 43,864 spectators.
The plan went well from the beginning for a Sevilla capable of bottling Allegri’s men in the first minutes of the game. He did it with a quick circulation of the ball and thanks to the depth of Acuña and Navas. It was a first half that broke up as the minutes went by and degenerated into an exchange of blows in which Szczesny and Bono reigned supreme. The former saved a header from Ocampos, a long-range missile from Acuña and a shot from Oliver inside the area, while the latter held Pizjuán’s breath after a point-blank header from Gatti. It all happened before a break that was controversial after a tackle by Cuadrado on Oliver that Makkelie considered was not a penalty before the stupor of the Seville parish.
After the resumption, the correcalles went further. Sevilla pressed up but found themselves with a rival full of resources and weapons to counterattack. This is how Juve scared with up to three arrivals before Allegri gave entry to his entire arsenal. Chiesa and Vlahovic entered and it was the Serbian who found the prize in the first he had after a play in which the Sevilla defense lacked forcefulness and the former Fiorentina player showed that he is a top-level 9.
It was time to cling to the magic of the ‘Sevilla League’, the one that moves mountains and is also capable of beating a Juve that seemed made of concrete. He did it with Suso, who forced to play the match and as soon as he entered he got rid of a superb left-footed shot from outside the area against which Szczesny could do nothing, a missile to believe again, to sing the ‘they say he never gives up’ ‘. And it is that Mendilibar’s men did not give up, they signed a heart attack final arreón and put a Szczesny in trouble who saved the furniture up to three times.
Already in extra time, Pizjuán was still on a roller coaster. Vlahovic and Chiesa ran into Bono in two inaccuracies for Sevilla but not even that stopped Mendilibar’s ideas, who had been waiting for this moment for years and had unshakable faith in the idea of finding the goal that would give him a pass to the grand final of Budapest. He found it in the umpteenth center of Bryan Gil and in the arrival of Lamela from the second row, who headed and turned a crowd upside down that was pinching itself before the metamorphosis of his team in just two months. From that goal until the end, Sevilla shot ex officio, anesthetized the clash and even held out with ten players after the expulsion of Acuña.
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